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Struggling to take a decent pic but I've got a single skin outhouse (1970's build) with a concrete roof. I'd noticed a slight sag in the soldier brick course above the UPVC window a couple of years ago but no sign of cracking - I've now noted some cracking to the mortar and movement of the...

I hope the following makes sense - I have an old felted flat roof that leaked for a while and I achieved a reasonable fix with some bitumen mastic and painting the whole thing with some blackjack roof repair (the 50L tin) it's leaking again and I suspect it's the following in a few places. There...

We've got an old outhouse attached to the house. It's got a flat roof with a fairly old covering - when we arrived it was apparent there was a small leak for a while and I patched it up and it seemed fine. We rarely use the shed but I went in tonight and everything in it was covered in dust -...

I've just arranged for a multi-fuel stove to be replaced at my mum's house. It's been a really awful experience, the company were great in terms of the stove installation but really felt like they took the p**s re: cancelling multiple times and constantly rising estimate and the company...

I was at my mum's recently. She has a stove with back boiler and an LPG boiler. The heating and hot water run off the LPG but also off the wood burner. This seems to cause no end of confusion when any plumbing work needs done and although she's just had the stove replaced it's not working very...

(me again trying to make progress with various problems in in-laws house). Worcester combi boiler only a couple q of years old, putting out loads of heat to warm the house but hot water only comes on briefly when taps are first switched on and goes off never to return. Boiler engineer said def...

I'm trying to sort out a few tasks in my mother-in-law's house in a hurry... Going to pick up an electric shower tomorrow - will be installed by a plumber but I'm trying to work out which one to get. Current one looks to be 9.5kw but looking at this power rating at Screwfix there's still lots...

I've just turned the valve on the kitchen towel rail and it's immediately started leaking - probably the first time in years it's been moved. I've never done anything to radiators and will get a plumber in if I must but I've just spent a fortune on a new boiler recently (and then had to get...

Hi, I just wondered if anyone could advise... I put a playhouse up for my toddler about 18 months ago - it was a flatpack but supposedly a decent one. Unfortunately I've never got it quite watertight. Part of the problem is that the sloping roof doesn't overlap the walls so in a downpour all...

Just before Covid my mum got her kitchen done after 40 years of a rickety DIY job. On the whole everything seems very well installed with a few little annoying bits. There is a nice looking laminate floor but it's gone down over concrete (I assume underlay) and there are a few bits where they're...

I've got myself very worried over the years at all the possible asbestos containing materials hiding in my house and now I've read about asbestos bitumen underneath tiles. I'm in the process of wondering what to do about some hollow/broken tiles and I've noticed this at the edge of some tiles at...

After buying a (fairly decent if we're going by price) wooden playhouse and assembling it over the summer, it's been consistently leaking - the roof is sound, but the water runs off the sloping roof (no overhang) and down the playhouse wall and seeps in through various points. An obvious...

There's a gap in the top of my French doors I can put my finger through - I've been watching lots of videos and looking at the door mechanism itself. Originally I was convinced it was about making sure the door was square but now I'm thinking the hinge has dropped and now the lock mechanism...

We've been in our house for 4 years. We like the tiles in the kitchen but it looks like they've been a really bad DIY job, not completely flat, not a huge deal BUT there is movement in quite a few and some definitely sound hollow, some have cracked as I've stood on them or when something has...

The pictured drain gets blocked periodically - everything drains into it - shower, bath, all sinks, dishwasher and washing machine so every so often I need to clear bits of hair and food out of it (I realise it could do with a good repoint!). Today it's really blocked - I've ladled all the...

This radiator valve is leaking, I suspect since the plumber drained the radiator as part of a boiler install a couple of weeks ago, the nut is rounded and it's hard to tell if it is (was) square before and I have tried with an adjustable spanner but no joy and don't want to round further -...

Tired of weeding patio and currently suffering from a back injury so looking to do a final weed and then fill in the gaps with 'something', but not sure what product to use. I've found pour in mixes, dry mixes to hose down afterwards - for each of these there's branded products but these can...

I was looking to see if there was such a thing and came across a website: https://longreachsealantguns.co.uk/ But not currently available. In the absence of being able to find a roofer willing to replace a single tile this would be incredibly useful! UPDATE: I heard back from the company -...

Just built a playhouse from a kit for my toddler. Looks great and I painted it (very carefully I may add) with two colours of shed and fence paint. It was for rough sawn wood as that's what I thought I had, however... The paint looks ok in most places but if you run it lightly with a damp cloth...

I, ahem, dropped a big mug down the stairs and it has made a real mess of one of the tiles. This is one of a couple of accidents and I'm just wondering if there's a product to use that will help me to make a half-decent job of filling it in. I'm far from a perfectionist and it couldn't really...